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Project Metadata Element | Details |
Project Title | Tackling European Water Challenges |
Research Area | Water |
Project Acronym | WatEUr |
Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Brian Donlon (IE) Alice Wemaere (IE) |
Lead Institution or Organisation | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Lead Country | Ireland |
Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.31188, -6.23578 |
Lead Funding Entity | European Commission |
Approximate Project Start Date | 01/01/2013 |
Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/01/2016 |
Project Website (if any) | www.waterjpi.eu/water-jpi |
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Project Keywords | Freshwater; Economy; Water challenges; Funding |
Project Abstract | Water is a critical resource for the European society. Beside its main life function, freshwater also provides many other functions essential to our economy such as transport, energy provision, heat exchange, cleaning, washing, and constitutes a necessary raw material for many industries. Water availability in sufficient quantities and adequate quality is an issue of highest priority and represents a pan-European and global societal challenge. Water challenges cannot be successfully tackled through the isolated effort of individual national research and innovation programmes. A significant share (more than 70%) of public spending in water research and technology development is programmed, executed and evaluated at national level. This project aims at developing a coordinated and strategic approach to public national and regional research and innovation funding in Europe. The project runs from January 2013 to December 2015 and involves 17 institutions in 14 partner countries. Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda The Water Joint programming Initiative has launched its Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda in May 2013. It is a collective, shared and forward-looking exercise identifying and prioritising directions for Research, Development and Innovation (RDI). |